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When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.

~Albert Maltz

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Ambition Behaving Beings Belief Death Doomed Every Frustration Hands Hell Human Human Beings Knowledge Majority More Never Rumor Skeleton Than Though Were

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I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

~Aleister Crowley

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I don't even know where to start in terms of people having such an issue about color, especially being dark. I just think on different levels it's ignorance; it's no belief, no confidence, it's insecurity, so you want to inflict it on somebody else.

~Alek Wek

Topics: About Being Belief Color Confidence Dark Different Different Levels Else Even Having Ignorance Inflict Insecurity Issue Just Know Levels People Somebody Start Terms Think Want Where You

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I feel that a lot of human spirituality stems from the belief that we are unique and special in the universe, but maybe we are just what happens when there is proper temperature and proper distance from the right type of star.

~Alex Honnold

Topics: Belief Distance Feel Happens Human Just Lot Maybe Proper Right Special Spirituality Star Stems Temperature Type Unique Universe I Feel

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One of the most unfortunate side effects of the urban activism of the '60s and '70s is the belief that development is wrong and that fighting it makes you an environmentalist.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Activism Belief Development Effects Environmentalist Fighting Makes Most Side Unfortunate Urban Wrong You

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I think that being raised the way I was, where everything was so uncompromising, where, you know, we're prepared to fight to the death for the soil that you believed belonged to you - that kind of extreme engagement is very difficult to flush out of your system - or your belief system, anyway.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: Anyway Being Belief Believed Belonged Death Difficult Engagement Everything Extreme Fight Kind Know Out Prepared Raised Soil System Think Uncompromising Very Way Where You Your I Think

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The belief that we can be done with our past is a myth.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: Belief Done Myth Our Past

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But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

~Alexei Sayle

Topics: Belief Central Communist Communist Party Cults Down Down The Road Elimination Fanaticism Led Mass Nuance Party Road Slowly System Very You

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If you take a cold, blunt view of most religions, and you sort of say, 'Well, here's the basis for it,' most of them sound crazy. It's the belief that makes them real. I was interested in that question: When does a belief become a myth? When does something you believe in become just a story?

~Alexi Zentner

Topics: Basis Become Belief Believe Blunt Cold Crazy Does Here Interested Just Makes Most Myth Question Real Religions Say Something Sort Sound Story Take Them View Well You

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